Daily News | Heating bills for a frigid December leave some Philadelphians aghast
The 48-year-old Havertown woman had been aghast at the high cost of her early-winter heating bills, but she anticipated this latest bill would be the steepest one yet. It included the frigid days around Christmas, a bleak spot in an otherwise mild winter so far in the Philadelphia region.
This winter has been wrought with anxiety for homeowners and renters. They are not only battling volatile price swings at the grocery store — even on typically cheapWhile a year of record inflation is partly to blame for soaring fuel costs, other factors are at play, too. “Those who are using fuel oil ... are seeing the most dramatic increases in price,” with the U.S. Energy Information Administration expecting costs to rise at least 45%, said Daniel Ciolkosz, associate research professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Pennsylvania State University. About 18% of households in the Northeast heat their homes with oil, making the region the country’s most dependent on the highly volatile fuel.
At about a dozen centers across the city, customers can chat for free with an energy counselor about ways to afford their bills and receive weatherization training and other energy efficiency education. About half of the people coming into ACHIEVEability are inquiring about utility bills, organization officials said, though the biggest influx of such concerns comes in the summer when utilities get shut off if they go unpaid for too long.
Nyisha Chapman, PGW’s community partnerships manager, talks with some of its 500,000 customers over the phone and at events, and said phone calls inquiring about bills haven’t been exorbitantly high this winter, noting thatIt has ebbed and flowed as it normally does, she said.
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